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Originally Posted by Stewart Grove
Hi i'm hoping someone can show me the error of my ways. I've read numerous posts on this and tried a few things but i cannot add books to my library and have Calibre automatically set the author to last name first.
What i am doing is dragging a MOBI file from an Explorer window in to the Calibre window. Calibre tells me its adding the book and the book then appears in my library.
I check the author field in the meta data and its first name then last name. The author sort field is exactly how i want it (last name, first name) so i have been manually copying from one field to the other but thought there has to be a way of getting the software to do this automatically. A quick search around and i find lots of info but nothing has worked yet.
I have tried going to Preferences -> Advanced -> Tweaks -> Author Sort Name Algorithm and author_sort_copy_method = 'invert' and trying the comma and copy settings but nothing alters the author field when i drop a book in to Calibre from an Explorer window.
So what am i doing wrong?
Sorry my first post here is a problem  |
the tweak only affects NEW books being added, not existing books.
You could try using the Manage Authors... button at the bottom of the Tag Browser
Manage Authors: use the Recalculate button
Warning: Will overwrite ALL
custom Author sort values